Punch (62.1872)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAR'L

[February 24, 1872.

OUTBREAK OF HUMANITY.

Jarvey (who has been well treated during the Drive). ' 'It a 'Orse about the 'Ead ? I'd give a Man a Month for 'ittin' 'Orse

about the 'EaD ! (Hie t) 'E.ad 'g principle MeMBRAN' 'UmAN body I If 'Man got's 'EaD, 'can carry 's legs, but if 'man ain't

got's 'Ead, can't carry's Legs, don't care 'oo 'tis ! !"

THE THEATRICAL BALLOT-BOXES. FRIGHTFUL SAVAGES.

c o-n v • c t i. ii f„n__ We read in the Pall Mall Gazette, with a distaste not often caused

_ Since the opening of Parliament we. are informed that the follow- by the CQntents of h&t M ; that thepe . in India a sect

olf^fcl _^V6 1 PP ballot-boxes at the which holds ^ foUowing monstrous doctrines:-

" According to Ram Singh, the cardinal virtues of the believer are meek-
ness, patience under provocation, and resignation to the will of Heaven. He
denounces lying, stealing, and impurity as deadly sins, excluding all guilty
of them from the sect, and forbids the selling of daughters in marriage. Men
are enjoined by him to work for their livelihood; and Brahmins, Sodls, Bedis,
and other priestly orders, who live on the alms of others, he declares to be
impostors."

Queen's Theatre :

"Play Measure for Measure. Yours, H. A. Bruce. "
" I vote for The Tempest. q j Goschen."
" My idea is The Merchant of Venice. j$ Disraeli."

" I should say The Comedy of Errors, gladstone."
" Try Much Ado About, Nothing. gIR -yy. Dilke.'

" First Part of Henry the Fourth, and I'll come and direct
the supers at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

" Edw. Cardwell."

"A Midsummer Night's Dream. By the way I hear it's
likely to be a hot summer. " tj Brand.

" {Vice Denison resigned.) "

"We think the Tivo Gentlemen of Verona is best."

( G. H. Wballey.
j C. n. ISTewdegate."

"Ah, Sir, Tim of Athens is your man. j_ p Maguire."

" Taming of the Shreiv, for example, or Love's Labour's
Lost. If not, try Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

" Penzance."

N.B. The Management, in reply to several inquiries, begs to inform
its numerous Correspondents, that, having searched the works of the
immortal Bard, no such work can be found as the Tragedy of
Mustard and Cressida.

Revolting ! Why, these* people are no better—not one whit better
than the early Christians. Here is a sect that must be extirpated.
Imagine such a faith spreading! The sooner guns are got out and
these pestilent heretics are blown away, the better.

Malapropiana.

Our good friend, Mrs. Malaprop, is surprised to hear that a little
children's story she remembers in her childhood should have become
a subject of the gravest political discussion. She says she never
dreamed, when she was reading the American Nights En tertainments,
that such a fuss as she hears talked of would be ever made in Par-
liament about the Ali Baba case.

" Over the Sea."

The man of all others whose name and countenance the promoters
of improved Channel communication between England and France
should at once secur-e is undoubtedly—M. Jules Ferry.

Heavy Reading.—A Ship's Log.